“After five weeks of sluggish PC sales, retailers received a big boost during the first week of Vista’s launch, according to a report released Thursday by Current Analysis,” Dawn Kawamoto reports for CNET News.
Kawamoto reports, “PC unit sales soared 173 percent at U.S. retail stores during the week ended February 3, compared with PC sales in the previous week, according to the report. Current Analysis also noted that during Vista’s debut week PC unit sales rose 67 percent compared with the same period a year ago. Computers loaded with Microsoft’s new operating system, Vista, made their debut during a midnight celebration January 29, but initial reports found interest paled in comparison with launches of previous versions of Windows.”
“The report also found that demand was higher for PCs with the more expensive version of the new operating system,” Kawamoto reports.
Kawamoto reports, “Notebooks loaded with Vista Home Premium accounted for 76 percent of all notebook PC sales, while Vista Home Basic represented only 16 percent, according to the report. It also noted that Vista Home Premium notebooks carried an average sales price of $863, while the Home Basic notebook version had an average sales price of $616.
Kawamoto reports, “‘Microsoft is pleased with the initial response to Windows Vista,’ a company representative said in an e-mail.”
MacDailyNews Take: We have to wonder what was happening at the Apple Stores. Once the early adopters fall out of the way and the vast majority see some of these scathing Vista reviews, will Microsoft and the box assemblers remain pleased with the response?
Kawamoto continues, “Desktops also experienced a bigger demand for premium versions of Vista, but the gap was not as wide. Vista Home Premium desktops accounted for 59 percent of all desktop PC sales, while Home Basic desktops garnered 33 percent. The report is based on unit sales from five major retailers: Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Staples and Radio Shack.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We expected nothing less.* There’s nothing more reliable than the lemmings mindlessly following each other over the cliff.
*We actually expected much more. Microsoft and the Windows PC box assemblers should be concerned. Comparing PC sales to the week before the launch of a new OS to the first week’s sales is supposed to signify what, exactly, the raging success that is Windows Vista? Puleeze.
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I said all along that Leopard would come out after Vista.
All over the media people are mentioning Vista, writing articles and making news clips about Vista. Vista is paving the way for Leopard to be a gargantuan release. I mean monstrous. It’ll be covered everywhere. The free publicity will be priceless.
It sucks to wait, but Apple made a great decision on this. I just hope we don’t have to wait until then for iLife, too, (which I secretly believe we will).
They’ve thrown away this quarter. I don’t expect anything until late March at the earliest, and then probably just new hardware.
In other words… 3 times “sluggish” = Vista PC sales…
Can’t wait to see the ‘buzz’ on this… heehehe
The reason A Mac user upgrades to a new Version of Mac OS: To use the latest and greatest and see what new wonders the OS has.
The reason form Windows Users to upgrade their OS: Because they are sick of the issues there having with their current OS and are prying the upgrad will ‘fix’ everything.
“Has it occurred to anyone just how much better Leopard is, feature-wise, than Vista, and there is still plenty we don’t know about Leopard?”
Why would they do —
Oh yeah.
Right.
Microsoft…
I really won’t be able to understand what these numbers REALLY mean until we hear from Zune Tang explains it to all of us
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Vista is ultimately going to dominate– M$ will force it upon everyone in time. But, Apple is strong unlike ever before. M$’s gain doesn’t necessarily mean Apple’s loss. When M$ gained domiannce, having a home computer was a big deal to everyone. Cheaper was better. Now, people want what works because for the most part, we’re getting more tech savvy.
Apple is strong, they’ll continue to grow, and M$ may be the most sold, but it’s certainly not the most popular. Now, in the not too distant future, as chips get super=speedy– this OS paradigm is going to fall. I can totally see Apple in the lead when things really turn a corner.
I can tell you why the 173% jump in PC sales. The week before Vista’s release, virtually every major PC seller pulled all of the PCs off the shelves to make room for the new Vista machines. You really couldn’t buy a PC then if you wanted to.
OW!!!
It seems kind of pointless to try and find fault with the numbers or twist them into something they aren’t. Vista will be the biggest selling OS of all time. And no, I am not some MS shill – I write this from my Power Mac. You can point out all the reasons why OS X is better than Vista (which really isn’t as bad as some of you would like to believe) or how Leopard will be even better, but to argue against the sheer volume of numbers they will sell is kind of pointless.
Funny when a Maczealot talks about lemmings. With Jobs’ dick in his ass.
Sales of PCs are only up 173% that Sucks! Only up 67% on the same week last year that’s terrible!
Vista is a huge failure! Leopard will wipe it out!
Meanwhile Mac sales were flat last quarter, That makes Steve a genius!
Lipstick or not the Pig is flying off the shelves, It’s already sold more copies than all Macs in existence.
“We have to wonder what was happening at the Apple Stores.”
At a guess, they were empty.
“There’s nothing more reliable than the lemmings mindlessly following each other over the cliff”
There’s nothing more reliable than Mac lemmings. Steve’s built a whole company around pandering to the ignorant, telling them they’re “special” for choosing his products.
Coming soon, the VistaMac, which will make Vista the greatest OS in the world in the eyes of Mac users, just as after years of trashing them, Intel’s processors became the greatest processors in the world once Apple belatedly recognised their superiority and started using them.
@UberMacUserFanboy
I may be trying to teach you the bleeding obvious, but computer sales are seasonal, so some quarters are always better than others.
the only useful comparisons are those between the same periods year on year,
on this basis mac sales were up around 37% depending on which market and which machines you look at.
pc sales were up by 2-5% on the same basis.
@Reality Check
There are some undeniable underlying trends.
Apple revenue and earning continue to defy gravity
Mac market share is growing at around 9 times the market
Apple owns the music player market
Apple owns the downloadable music market
Apple earnings up
Apple revenues up
Zune is an abject failure
xBox continues to lose money
Monopolistic IE strategy a failure
Longhorn abandoned
Senior execs are leaving Microsoft
Vista already a PR disaster
MS earnings down 28% quarter on quarter
I don’t see anything which will turn these trends around.
Do you?
@user mac fanboy
[“We have to wonder what was happening at the Apple Stores.” At a guess, they were empty.]
Apple stores are second only to Luis Vuitton for dollar per square metre earnings.
Dream on boy, dream on…
There is a limited timespace for microsoft apologists. the end of the microsoft era is upon us.
RC, people buy Macs and they KNOW WHY.
people buy PC and they have no idea why. Just because the neighbor told them so.
Capish now why Lemmings is a Windows-only feature?
You don’t get a Mac by chance or because you are told so. Is this so frigging difficult that your turd Windows mind can’t grasp it still, lemming?
Coming soon, the VistaMac, which will make Vista the greatest OS in the world in the eyes of Mac users, just as after years of trashing them, Intel’s processors became the greatest processors in the world once Apple belatedly recognised their superiority and started using them.
Still not clear in your mind, right lemming? Till the G4/G5 was the best around processor that was what Apple used. IBM and Motorola essentially dropped the development there and the new intel architecture finally truly got past G5 performance. Then Apple switched: to a better road-map.
If intel should fail big time and AMD should become the next totally best, Apple will switch again in order to provide the best technology to their customers. Do you seriously think that the Pentium chip era was anything but crap? Crap then, crap now. Intel just happened to move past Pentium and multi-core Xeon faster than the stagnant IBM.
As SJ said, Apple goes where the puck WILL BE, not where the puck is. Which, looking at Vista, it is exactly what MS has done with Vista. An OS for the early 2000. Even worst, they move where their comfort-zone is: Vista is nothing but Microsoft Server 2003 with eye-candy. Talk about innovation, innovation my ass.
It is amazing to see how idiocy is rampant in Windows camp, but that is where the milking-cows of IT graze grass. Lemming? exactly that, although little by little people are starting to open their eyes, here and there. Apple Q107 was much higher than Q406 who scored already a 37% with respect to Q406.
Apple revenues went from 6 Billions beginning 2001 to 22 Billions end 2006 and it is just 50% of Microsoft. Got that? 50% of the entire revenues Microshaft did this year. If Apple was as big as MS it would have had in proportion over 200 Billions of revenues. Apple revenues last year surged 173%.
If instead of having your head up Bill Gates’ ass till his tonsils you simply would use the remaining neurons still firing in your watery brain….
Q406 who scored already a 37% with respect to Q406.
with respect to Q306, of course. Correction needed for the lurker turds from Windows. They would not understand otherwise and would have to reboot.
According to Microsoft watch, the 173% PC sales up surge was due to XP model channel clearance, not Vista sales.
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/vista/channel_cleaned_house_for_vista.html
dtp…
What? Do people get paid monthly where you’re from?
” IBM and Motorola essentially dropped the development there and the new intel architecture finally truly got past G5 performance. “
Keep telling yourself that. Steve didn’t even believe that 3 years ago, but he kept YOU believing that, which, for Mac sales is what matters. Then he got you to believe that Intel hadn’t been ahead for years, when he got you to switch to a processor you previously thought was crap. The guy has an amazing level of control over your tiny brain.
I just look forward to laughing as you start singing the praises of Vista because Steve tells you it is GOOD.
“Apple stores are second only to Luis Vuitton for dollar per square metre earnings.”
Microsoft’s dollar per square meter ratio is infinite, since they don’t have any stores.
“the only useful comparisons are those between the same periods year on year,”
Yet Mac sales are up a mere 30% year on year from a tiny base (or 1% absolute growth, a number exceeded by at least half a dozen other vendors). PC sales (for that week) were up 67% from a massive base.
What does that tell you? Vista is a raging success. It’s already sold more copies than all Macs in existence.
Just as Apple increased sales once the the Windows XP compatible Macs were launched (1 million boot camp users don’t lie) Apple’s sales will recover and grow once the VistaMac launches.
to the boss:
I am writing this especially for you.
STFU!!
OK! now go milk the pigs!
“the end of the microsoft era is upon us.”
I triple guarantee you that nobody is buying Vista.